United Airlines has reported a bigger fourth-quarter profit and higher revenue than Wall Street expected. And United is giving a bullish forecast for 2023. United said Tuesday that it earned $843 …
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By DAVID KOENIG
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1/17/23
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The federal government is on the brink of hitting its legal borrowing limit on Thursday. In response, the Treasury Department plans to launch “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default. That may …
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By JOSH BOAK
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1/17/23
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The World Economic Forum says billionaire Elon Musk wasn’t on the guest list for the annual meeting of business executives, global leaders and cultural trend-setters in Davos, Switzerland — …
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By JAMEY KEATEN
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1/17/23
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A grocery store that features thousands of products made entirely of discarded plastic opens to the public on Tuesday. The Plastic Bag Store is a custom-built public art installation and film …
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
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1/17/23
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Jim Ratcliffe is entering the bidding to buy Manchester United. The billionaire owner of petrochemicals firm INEOS is ready to make an offer to United owners the Glazer family, who outlined their …
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By JAMES ROBSON
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1/17/23
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German news agency dpa is reporting that Swedish climate activist Great Thunberg and several other protesters have been carried away by German police from the edge of an open coal pit mine. They were …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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1/17/23
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The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in …
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By JAMEY KEATEN
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1/17/23
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A trial in absentia has opened for Belarus’ top opposition leader who denounced the proceedings as a farce and urged the West to bolster support for the country’s beleaguered opposition. …
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By The Associated Press
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1/17/23
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A Norwegian police unit that investigates war crimes wants to talk to a Russian asylum-seeker man who reportedly is a former high-ranking member of the private Russian military contractor Wagner …
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By JAN M. OLSEN
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1/17/23
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Emerson is taking public its bid to buy National Instruments for $7.6 billion. Emerson is offering $53 per share in cash, an enhanced offer that was made in November. It initially offered $48 per …
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
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1/17/23
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The Czech coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over opposition claims of incompetence. The main opposition centrist ANO (YES) movement led by populist billionaire Andrej …
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1/17/23
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The European Union is pushing forward with a massive clean tech industrial plan that not only should keep the continent in the vanguard of plotting a greener future but also guarantee its economic …
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By RAF CASERT
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1/17/23
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German news agency dpa says Chancellor Olaf Scholz will appoint a regional official as the new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht. The defense …
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1/17/23
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Polish President Andrzej Duda is predicting that the German government will agree one day to send powerful Leopard tanks to Ukraine, citing Germany’s membership in NATO and rising public support …
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1/17/23
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Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of disagreements between the NATO allies when Turkey’s foreign minister visits this week. But expectations that outstanding issues can …
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By SUZAN FRASER and ANDREW WILKS
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1/17/23
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Local companies, PSU partner on new workforce initiative program
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Two of Pittsburg’s largest companies are partnering with Pittsburg State University on a new workforce initiative program.
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Special to the Morning Sun / [email protected]
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8/17/22
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